Social Democratic Party of Portugal

The Social Democratic Party (PSD) is a liberal-conservative and liberal political party in Portugal that was founded in 1974. The party was founded as the Democratic Peoples' Party two weeks after the Carnation Revolution, and it was originally a social democratic party; however, its views later shifted to the right. The party consisted of the centrist "Portuguese social democrats", the traditional, European-style social democratic faction, a rural wing, a classical liberal/social liberal wing, a Christian democratic wing, a right-wing populist wing, a conservative wing, a neoconservative wing, a neoliberal wing, a centrist wing, and a pragmatic wing. The party frequently adopted a "big tent" strategy to win elections, and most of the party's members were liberals, Christian democrats, and neoconsrevatives, as well as quasi-social democrats and former communists. The party was in power from 1979 to 1995, from 2002 to 2005, and from 2011 to 2015.